Chantelle Marshall

“while Mom hooked her arm through his. People needed to stop doing that. It was like a barrel of monkeys epidemic in this place, all the couples connected at the elbow. Seriously.”
― Patti Larsen, Chocolate Hearts and Murder

“But you know you don’t have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn’t it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else’s reflection,”
― Victoria Laurie, A Grave Prediction

“He had come to some somber conclusions about Russia, he added. “At the top there appears to be a personal struggle in which the foulest means are used by power-hungry individuals acting from purely selfish motives. At the bottom there seems to be complete suppression of the individual and freedom of speech. One wonders whether life is worth living under such conditions.” Perversely, when the FBI later compiled a secret dossier on Einstein during the Red Scare of the 1950s, one piece of evidence cited against him was that he had supported, rather than rejected, the invitation to be active in this world congress.71 One”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

“There were at least two possible explanations for the fact that distant stars in all directions seemed to be flying away from us: (1) because we are the center of the universe, something that since the time of Copernicus only our teenage children believe; (2) because the entire metric of the universe was expanding, which meant that everything was stretching out in all directions so that all galaxies were getting farther away from one another.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe